Send Guns, Ammo and DDT

As if the recently reported face eating zombie like attack in Miami had not been enough to get one worried that impending doom may be upon us, it seems that nature (or a government funded mad scientist) has now taken us one step beyond that horror. It has been reported that two people in India have died, and scores more have been injured, by swarms of "highly aggressive" venomous spiders. According to a report, at FoxNews.com, the spiders have invaded Sadiya, in Assam state, India. Up until this time, the report says, venomous spiders were unknown in the area. It is a possibility, if the attacks continue, that The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch the powerful insecticide DDT may be used to combat the antagonistic arachnids.

There is a twist to this story, as is often the case with such stories emanating in third world countries. It seems the government is reporting that no one has confirmed the toxicity of the spiders' venom and it is now believed possible that all of the bite victims may have been the victims of a local witch doctor type. He reportedly incised all of the bite wounds to drain blood and burn it in some weird ritual to cleanse the victims of the spiders' venom. It is now said that, this procedure, not the spider bites, may have caused the fatalities and an investigation is under way. As usual, the government a hospital official comes up with what seems a rational (but unproven) reason for a seemingly supernatural event. However, the reasoning does not explain away an attack by swarms of overly aggressive arachnids. My guess is that, the Indian government, or some other government, or a mad scientist, or all, are in some way implicated in these attacks and they are only attempting to cover up a fiendish plot to conquer the world with trained attack spiders. Of course, this could have been the first wave of an attack against the earth by spiders from outer space. 

All the best,
Glenn B